1: Chapter 1 Awakening! God-Level Hextech System

Qinghe High School, Class 17, Grade 12.

The air was filled with the scent of chalk dust and a faint aroma of incense.

On the podium at the front of the classroom, a snow-white crystal, half a person's height, was emitting a cold, white light.

This was the Divine Kingdom Awakening Stone.

In this world, upon turning eighteen, everyone would open up their internal Divine Kingdom at this moment; if the Divine Kingdom developed well, one could ignite the Divine Fire, achieve godhood, and gain infinite lifespan.

Fang Chuan sat in the third row, his washed-out orphanage uniform clinging tightly to his back, soaked through with sweat.

At the edge of his retina hovered a translucent progress bar that only he could see—99%.

Above the progress bar was the avatar of a chubby penguin wearing a helmet and holding a golden spatula.

It was the icon from the mobile game he often played in his past life.

Having transmigrated eighteen years ago, he was without parents and had been raised by the state.

This cheat, which had been loading for a full eighteen years, was stuck at the very last bit of progress.

On the podium, the first-rank deity and Head Teacher Chen Xingyue held a list, her gaze sweeping across the students below: "Next, Liu Ruyan."

A tall, beautiful girl walked onto the stage and placed her right hand on the Awakening Stone.

The inside of the crystal suddenly lit up with a warm orange glow, like the rising sun.

Watching the divine patterns appear on the surface of the crystal, Head Teacher Chen Xingyue's brows relaxed: "Liu Ruyan, Divine Kingdom area 1.3 million square kilometers, medium resources, B+ rating. Divine Talent: Extraordinary Fertility, B+ grade! Your followers' reproduction speed will be several times that of an average person, and your early accumulation of faith points will be extremely fast. Not bad. Go down and consolidate your Divine Kingdom; you will soon be able to advance to a Demigod."

"Thank you, Teacher." Liu Ruyan bowed respectfully and walked off the stage.

"Next, Zhang Chao."

Fang Chuan's deskmate, a sturdy-built boy, stood up.

Passing by Fang Chuan, Zhang Chao patted his shoulder with a broad palm: "Chuan, don't be nervous. Even if your luck is bad and your rating is low, we'll team up later, and I'll have your back."

Zhang Chao walked quickly onto the stage, his palm just touching the Awakening Stone.

"Hum!"

A blinding golden light instantly filled the entire classroom, and the students in the front row even instinctively raised their hands to shield their eyes.

A rich aura of life overflowed from the crystal.

Head Teacher Chen Xingyue's originally serious face was filled with astonishment, and her voice rose an octave: "Zhang Chao! Divine Kingdom area 960,000 square kilometers, superior resources, S-grade rating! Divine Talent: Abundant Offspring, A+ grade!"

"Overall rating S-!"

Abundant Offspring meant that as the followers reproduced, the probability of high-talent followers appearing would increase.

A collective gasp of cold air echoed in the classroom.

An S-grade rating meant that a high-level follower tribe would definitely be born within the Divine Kingdom!

Head Teacher Chen Xingyue's gaze toward Zhang Chao changed completely; it was the look of someone gazing at a future peer or even a high-ranking deity: "Very good, very good! Zhang Chao, stay behind after the ceremony; the school has special resource support for you."

Zhang Chao scratched his head, grinned, walked down, and gave Fang Chuan a thumbs up.

"Next, Fang Chuan."

Head Teacher Chen Xingyue's voice pulled Fang Chuan back to reality.

Fang Chuan stared fixedly at the penguin icon in the corner of his vision. 99%. It didn't budge.

Escaping was impossible.

He stood up and, under the gaze of over thirty people, walked step by step onto the podium.

He had no way out. If he couldn't awaken a promising Divine Kingdom today, after turning eighteen, the state would stop providing his support subsidy, and he would only be able to go to a low-level factory and work as a coolie growing low-level grain for the rest of his life.

Fang Chuan raised his right hand and placed his palm against the cold, hard Awakening Stone.

Two seconds passed, then three seconds.

The Awakening Stone was like a dead, stubborn rock, with only a layer of murky gray light, like dirty water, appearing inside.

The classroom was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

A flash of unconcealable pity crossed Head Teacher Chen Xingyue's eyes. Looking at the dim divine patterns struggling to appear on the crystal, she read out the data softly: "Fang Chuan, Divine Kingdom area... 110,000 square kilometers, inferior resources, F rating."

She paused, looking with complex eyes at this student who was usually the most well-behaved and always ranked first in academic subjects: "Divine Talent... None. Overall rating, F-."

What did an F- talent mean?

The Divine Kingdom area was comparable to a wasteland, with almost no resources and no talent.

His followers would most likely be inferior goblins who didn't even know how to read and only knew how to bite each other.

His future limit would be nothing more than a mortal with a hundred-year lifespan.

"Sigh, go down."

Head Teacher Chen Xingyue didn't say anything more, only feeling the powerlessness of a teacher.

In this cruel world, without Divine Kingdom potential, Fang Chuan's future was destined not to be good.

Below the stage, Zhang Chao opened his mouth, wanting to offer comfort, but found he couldn't say anything, only secretly making up his mind to look after his good brother in the future.

Fang Chuan withdrew his hand.

The moment his fingertips left the Awakening Stone.

"Ding—"

A crisp, ethereal mechanical sound, like metal gears interlocking, suddenly exploded deep in his mind.

At the edge of his retina, that progress bar which had been loading for eighteen years suddenly jumped forward!

100%!

The chubby penguin holding the golden spatula suddenly moved. It waved the spatula in Fang Chuan's line of sight, and a bright blue light screen filled with mechanical and magical texture suddenly covered his entire field of vision.

[Congratulations, Host, loading complete! God-level Hextech System awakened successfully!]

[Detected that the Host has opened a Divine Kingdom, Hextech enhancement technology has been activated.]

[Rules: Every day, the Host can choose one from three Hextech technologies to permanently or instantly enhance your Divine Kingdom, followers, or main body.]

Fang Chuan's steps as he walked off the podium suddenly froze.

Eighteen years of despair were shattered by this ethereal mechanical sound!

His heart hammered against his ribcage like a heavy drum, and even his breathing trembled from extreme excitement.

Hextech!

Thanks, Old Ma, even in another world you didn't forget me.

[You have one initial Hextech selection opportunity today (Prismatic grade guaranteed).]

[Please choose your enhancement direction!]

"Hum—"

In his mind, three prisms radiating seven-colored light, like three brilliant stars, floated in Fang Chuan's sea of consciousness.

The dazzling light illuminated his gray, desolate, 110,000-square-kilometer F-grade Divine Kingdom.

Fang Chuan immediately plunged his consciousness into his mind.

Information on the three major Prismatic Hextechs flowed into his mind as golden characters.

Option 1: [Luxury Item Order (Prismatic)]

Effect: Immediately drop three random high-order divine power items into your Divine Kingdom, and every month (Divine Kingdom time), when your followers sacrifice, they will definitely produce at least one high-order item.

Note: Divine power items are incredibly powerful; your followers may not be able to withstand the divine pressure.

Option 2: [Hedge Fund+ (Prismatic)]

Effect: Immediately gain 100,000 faith points (common currency for deities).

Furthermore, your Divine Kingdom will no longer be affected by the storage limit for faith points.

Every day, the faith points you possess will automatically generate 10% interest, compound interest, with no upper limit!

Note: A very good choice!

Option 3: [Living Forge (Prismatic)]

Effect: Immediately obtain an "Ornn Artifact" (a super powerful supreme-plane divine artifact).

From then on, every time you experience a Divine Kingdom war or large-scale sacrifice, you will randomly obtain an Ornn Artifact.

Your followers will have a very high probability of a "Blacksmith" class mutation.

Note: Your followers may not be able to withstand the divine pressure.

Looking at these three options, Fang Chuan's brain was running wildly.

Luxury Item Order?

It gives high-order items directly.

But his Divine Kingdom was currently all desert, and his followers probably couldn't even get enough to eat. Giving them divine artifacts wouldn't allow them to unleash their power, and it would also attract the covetousness of other evil gods, so he ruled it out.

Living Forge?

Ornn Artifacts were indeed dimension-reducing strikes, but there was also the problem of having too thin a foundation in the early stages and being unable to form effective combat power.

His gaze locked tightly onto the second option.

[Hedge Fund+]!

What was the concept of 100,000 faith points?

For a first-rank deity like Head Teacher Chen Xingyue, 100,000 faith points might not be much.

100,000 faith points were enough to buy a medium-sized spiritual vein at the Divine City Exchange, or hundreds of high-level terrain expansion cards and resource cards, smashing an F-grade Divine Kingdom into a C-grade one!

Not to mention that terrifying 10% daily interest.

As long as he could survive, this was a money-printing machine!

"I choose the second one, Hedge Fund+."

Fang Chuan issued the command in his consciousness.

The moment Fang Chuan sat back in his seat, the seven-colored prisms in his mind shattered with a bang.

[Selection successful.]

[100,000 faith points have arrived!]

In the real world, Fang Chuan had just sat down.

Zhang Chao leaned over and lowered his voice: "Chuan, it's okay. F-grade has its own way of living. Whatever I have in my Divine Kingdom in the future, you will have too. As long as I have a breath left, I will never let you go to the bottom level to work as a coolie!"